heck
See also: Heck
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Alteration of hell, possibly under influence of fuck.
Interjection
heck
- (euphemistic) Hell.
- What the heck are you doing?
Translations
euphemism of hell
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Noun
heck (uncountable)
- (euphemistic) Hell.
- You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
Synonyms
- See under hell.
Derived terms
Translations
euphemism of hell
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Etymology 2
See hatch (“a half door”).
Alternative forms
Noun
heck (plural hecks)
- The bolt or latch of a door.
- A rack for cattle to feed at.
- A door, especially one partly of latticework.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
- (weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
- A bend or winding of a stream.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “heck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “heck”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “heck”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
German
Verb
heck
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of hecken.
- (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of hecken.
Middle English
Noun
heck
- Alternative form of hacche
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